| Title |
Policy exceptionalism: analysis of ideational framework governing agricultural sector in Lithuania |
| Another Title |
Politikos išskirtinumas: idėjų sistemos, reguliuojančios žemės ūkio sektorių Lietuvoje, analizė. |
| Authors |
Vitkauskaitė-Ramanauskienė, Jonė |
| DOI |
10.5755/j01.ppaa.19.3.26320 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Viešoji politika ir administravimas = Public policy and administration.. Kaunas : KTU. 2020, t. 19, Nr. 3, p. 86-101.. ISSN 1648-2603. eISSN 2029-2872 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Lithuanian agricultural policy ; agriculture-environment nexus ; policy exceptionalism ; discourse analysis |
| Abstract [eng] |
After WWII, the agricultural sector emerged as an area of exception in western democracies and is often characterised by sector-specific policies, compartmentalised institutions, well-organised interests’ groups and ideas explaining why this sector cannot be governed by free-market forces. Nevertheless, over the last three decades, the sector has been reformed to incorporate neoliberal and environmental demands to a certain extent. Hence, the current agricultural regime consists of two competing discourses - policy exceptionalism versus post-exceptionalism. Study analyses this ideational struggle in the context of Lithuania. The study conducts interpretative discourse analysis of a site of discursive contestation, namely parliamentary debates over policy changes, which sparked farmers’ unrest in Autumn, 2019. It is argued that policy exceptionalism is a dominant discourse governing Lithuanian agricultural sector and that it serves as a discursive barrier to the incorporation of environmental concerns into the agricultural policy-making process. |
| Published |
Kaunas : KTU |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2020 |
| CC license |
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